The Resume

(June 23, 1940-November 12, 1994)
Won 3 Gold Medals in 1960 Olympics in Rome (100 m, 200 m, 4 x 100 m relay)
Won Bronze Medal in 1956 Olympics for relay
Winner of 1961 Sullivan Award
Coached Track at DePauw University
Served as U.S. Goodwill Ambassador to French West Africa

Why she might be annoying:

She was divorced twice.
She took a year off from getting her Bachelor's degree just so she could make personal appearances.
She had to wear leg braces as a child.

Why she might not be annoying:

She is the first U.S. female to win three Olympic gold medals in Track & Field.
She grew up in a poor family of twenty-one.
She overcame polio, double pneumonia and scarlet fever as a child to become one of the greatest runners in history.
She almost lost use of her left leg from polio effects when she was four.
She never lost a race in her high school track career.
She fought against segregation in her home state of Tennessee when Gov. Buford Ellington was going to plan segregated celebrations in her home town.
Soon after her Olympic triumphs, she taught at her childhood elementary school.
She created the Wilma Rudolph Foundation, a non-profit amateur sports program.
She ranked #41 in ESPN's SportsCentury Top Athletes of the 20th Century.

Credit: Eric Hartman

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year (Ranked: 1960)
• Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year (Ranked: 1961)
• Celebrities Born on the Same Date [June] (Ranked: 6231940)
• Delta Sigma Theta Sorority
• Ebony Magazine's 100 Most Fascinating Black Women of the 20th Century [March 1999]
• Ed Sullivan Show Guests
• ESPN Sports Century (Ranked: 41)
• I am from Tennessee
• I am on a U.S. Postage Stamp [R-T]
• I Appeared on Muhammad Ali's 50th Birthday Celebration [1992]
• I Died in 1994 (Ranked: 54)
• I Had Scarlet Fever
• I Have a Brain Tumor [Menegioma]
• I Have Polio
• I was Falsely Reported Dead
• James E. Sullivan Award Winners (Ranked: 1961)
• Ladies Home Journal's 100 Most Important Women of the 20th Century
• Look At My Trading Card
• McFly's Profiles [Series 1]
• National Women's Hall of Fame (Ranked: 1994)
• Profiles 5751-6000 (Ranked: 5822)
• Satirized on Family Guy
• Sports Illustrated Women Century's Greatest Sportswomen (Ranked: 8)
• Sports Illustrated's 100 Greatest Moments in Sports History (Ranked: 78)
• The My Hero Project
• Track and Field
• Women Who Kept Their Maiden Name After Marriage [Lucy Stoners]

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 6 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 15 Votes: 46.67% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 16 Votes: 31.25% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 75 Votes: 56.00% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 4 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 8 Votes: 12.50% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 8 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 8 Votes: 62.50% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 14 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 17 Votes: 29.41% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 15 Votes: 46.67% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 48 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 64 Votes: 40.62% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 56 Votes: 35.71% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 204 Votes: 44.61% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 164 Votes: 43.29% Annoying
In 2005, Out of 290 Votes: 42.76% Annoying
In 2004, Out of 376 Votes: 41.49% Annoying
In 2003, Out of 719 Votes: 43.12% Annoying
In 2002, Out of 883 Votes: 36.58% Annoying